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GOLDEN NEEDLES.
They Were Used When Gallants In
France Did Fancy Work.
During the old regime in France,
about which so much glamour re- '
mains to us, i he very men who were
living and making the history of the
empire of Louis passed their leisure '
time in a way that seems to us of
today utterly ridiculous. lit ail the
fancy work on which ladies employed
themselves the men sectn to have
totron nnrt
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Poinsinet in one of his comedies
represents a young marquis entering
a room where two fair damsels
are embroidcrir - One is working ,
a piece of dre-s imining, the other
a Marly flounce. The hoau examines
the embroidery with the eye of a
connoisseur, points out here and
there the specially good touches and
is too polite to notice any defects.
^ He takes a little gold tube out of
the pocket of hi3 richly decorated
waistcoat and selects a dainty gold
needle. He goes to the frame at
which Cidalise is working and finishes
the flower which she had begun.
From her he moves to the
sofa and, seizing one en^of the
flounce, assists Ismene, to 9 icm he
pays special attention, to complete
her task.
At this time it was the custom of
the ladies invariably to carry their
workbags with them to the evening
receptions, in which they had not
only their embroidery materials, but
the last'novel, the popular songs,
their patch boxes and rouge pots.
Gentlemen also carried deftly embroidered
little bags into company,
which held "a whole arsenal of cutlery
and fancy articles, such as
boxes of different shapes filled with
lozenges, bonbons, snuff and scent."
At another period the fashion of
the day was to cut out drawings
from books and pamphlets and to
paste them on screens, lamp shades,
boxes and vases. The skill in this
was to so arrange the drawings or
parts of different drawings as to
produce a curious or amusing effect.
Then there came a seasoi.
when all the rage was for charades
and riddles, which gave a peculiarly
good opportunity to exercise the
light and rapid wit 60 conspicuous
in the French. Every evening the
drawing rooms were converted into
impromptu charades. Some lady
would suggest a word or phrase, and
forthwith it would be converted into
the subject of ?a sprightly little play.
Many of the word games now current
with us in America had their
origin in the necessity the French
salons were under in tne last century
to divert themselves. In som?
of the salons the fashion of keeping
a daily chronicle of news, which
was too often a mere chronicle of
scandal, was adopted. Mme. Doublet
de Persan issued bulletins
which she called "nouvelles a la
Emain." In her apartments two registers
were kept, one of the authentic
news received here and there by
her guests, tiie other of floating rumors
and on dits, and from these
the budget of her chronicle was
made up and circulated throughout
JFxanoe.? Anpleton's Magazine.
To avoid serious results take Foley's
Kidney Kemedy at the first sign
of kidney or bladder trouble, such as
backaches, urinary irregularis, exhaustion,
and you will soon be well.
Commence taking Foley's Kidney
Remedy today. D C Scott.
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THE ATTIC INSTINCT.
Why Some Persons Cling to Thing#
That Are Rubbish.
The attic instinct hangs on surprisingly,
and an observing eye can
tell how many years a person has
lived in the city by merely glancing
under her bed. if there are three
hat boxes one will contain letters,
one scraps of. ribbons and laces?if
it's a man it's newspaper clippings
?and one anything from a broken
lock to old road maps. If, besides
these, there are bundles of magazines
and piles of newspapers, not
to mention a bicycle seat and a
green umbrella that one might use
in private theatricals?if all these
things have been placed under the
bed against the protests of the familv
if thev are natientlv moved
every cleaning day and clung to
through a moving, then their owners
have the attic instinct to such an
extent that there is not the slightest
hope of their ever being cured.
Thev will think from an attic point
of view for the rest of their lives,
and their family might as well become
resigned.
When people are willing to make
themselves disagreeable over a bit
of string and absolutely objectionable
on the subject of stray pieces of
brown paper they should not be accused
of having bad dispositions,
nor should they be suspected of doing
it to annoy one. They are
merely suffering from the attic instinct
and cannot help themselves.
Their characters were formed and
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life where certain things were always
kept in the cellar, others in
the wood shed, others in the pantry
and the cupboard on the first floor,
still others in the closets on the
next floor, and everything and anything
that overflowed from any of
these places was just taken up to
the attic. And now these poor dear
souls live with a cellar, three stories
and an attic still lodged in their
minds, and, though they will in
time disappear, like all unnecessary
members?seventh toe, tails, an appendix?in
the meantime they are
having trouble with them, they are
suffering and fighting for them, and
it takes a serious operation to remove
so much as one scrap book if
the owner thinks he may like to
read it over in his old age.?Harper's
Weekly.
Why Elsie Was Sent to Bed.
While little Elsie's elder sister,
May, was entertaining her latest acquisition,
a most dignified and genteel
vounir man, in the parlor Elsie
was relegated to the dining room to
plav with her doll.
This particular one, the possessor
of a kid body and a bisque head, had
been somewhat ailing of late, owing
to. the faet that its head was gradually
becoming detached and its
pivotal eyes refused to perform
their functions of opening and
closing. After considerable probing
for the cause of the trouble
Elsie made the discovery that there
was something inside of it and finally
succeeded in extracting a large
roll of tightly curled hair. A moment
later she burst into the parlor
in a great state of excitement
and shouted:
"Pity sakes! No wonder Dorothy
was sick! Look what was in her
cfnmmirk' She must have swallow
ed Sister May's rat!" ? Pittsburg
Gazette.
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Telegrapher's Cramp.
'An interesting feature of telegraphers
cramp is that certain letters
are nearly always the stumbling;
block. The most frequent are C:
and Y?that is, the code signals I
used for Ihese letters. When a I
sender begins to be "conscious"
about so common a letter as C his/
case soon becomes hopeless. Another
form of cramp attacks the receiver
of the message. It takes the
form of inability to write fast'
enough to take down a message
quickly transmitted. This is easily
understood when it is remembered
that a receiver often has to write
continuously to code dictation, so to
speak, for hours at a time. The
strain involved is enormous and
leads fairly commonly to what is
practically a form of nervous break-i
down.?Dundee Advertiser.
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The Black Sheep.
"What," asked the man who had |
returned to his native tpwn after
an absence of many year "became
of Ed Ferguson?"
"Ed? Oh, he's doin .e. Got
the best livery stable anywhere
around here and run9 the depot
hack."
"Let's see! He had a younger
brother, hadn't he?"
"Yes?Lem. He never amounted
to much. Wrote poetry and painted
pictures. I guess the family kind
of disowned him. At least he went
away several years ago, and I dunno
what ever became of him."?Chicago
Tribune.
When the farmers once understand
the railroad companies' iuterpretaof
confiscation, they will want to
take a hand in that fight themselves.
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An examination of Rc
the annexed state- p ? ?- ?
ment, which shows Ij lii r
an increase for a, thp
the past twelve
months of nearly
FIFTY THOUSAND _
Loans and
DOLLARS Demand L<
in the business of Overdrafts
THE BANK OF Banking H
KINGSTREE Furniture a
will be found good =
reading for those Checksand
complaining o f
hard times, as this
statement shows ,
prosperity and ;'^P1 al
growth. With a ^rpinsPu:
willingness to Undmd?l 1
serve all with con- nTa**s ,a
slderate. personal 1>,,e to Bai
attention, we soli- ?>e^)sltf '
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CORRECT-ATTEST STATE OF
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R. H. K.U..HAN,
John A. Kf.li.ey, Bank.
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of a person?in his own or
in the world'^^es?than to state it
in terms relations with the
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"AK, ..c is great man," said ;
Irving, "and in his own estimation i
a very great man?a man of great j
weight. When !:; goes to the west
the east tips up!"
Not Afraid of a Ghost.
In a village in England a man
went running into an inn at 9'
o'clock at night and cried out that
there was a ghost in his back yard.
There were fourteen men in the i
inn, and not one of them dared to
go home with the man and investigate.
There was a person who
dared, however, and that was the
landlord's daughter, a girl of fourteen.
Some of the men followed
her at a distance, and she went into
the yard and np to the ghost, flap
pilig iu> aims auuui, auu uuw.I
a man's white shirt flapping on the
clothesline in a strong breeze.
That's about the way all ghcsts turn
out.?Exchange.
There is a certain clase of fanners
who speculate off the necessities of
their brother farmers, and who ar
opposed to organization.
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close of business, Ap
RESOURCES
Discounts $ 151,474.72
ians 800.00
1,204.93
ouse 2,155.71
.nd Fixtures 1,958.78
lar.ks and ('ash on Hand.. 35,868.37
Cash Items 255.98
Total $ 193,778.49
LIABILITIES
:k Paid in $ 30,000.00
nd... $ 12,000.00
Profits less Expenses and
id, since January 1, 1909.. 5,451.94
nks 1,324.94
144 933.86
Checks 07.75
Total $ 193,778.49
1 SOUTH CAROLINA,
/ of Williamsburg,
Pairey, Cashier of the above named
lemnly swear that the above statei.
as shown by the books of said
F. W. Fa ire y, Cashier,
before me this the 3rd day of May,
H. 0. Britton, Cletk of C ourt.
FKINGSTREE,
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F. W. FAIREV. Cashier
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RESOURCES $150,000
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Solicits a share of your banking
business, feeling confident that
our ample resources and superior
facilities will render asso- i.
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agreeable and profitable. :
C. W, Stoll, Pres. E. C. Epps, Cashier,
E. L. Montgomery. Asst. Cashier, p. Rhem, V. Pres.
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